Reed's soccer game

Reed had his first soccer game of the season on Saturday. Since we've had some rain and weird scheduling, they haven't had much practice as a team. But, they did great and won the game! At one point, the spiked his hair up to be silly, and he ended up scoring a goal. Let's hope the crazy hair isn't his good luck charm!

The crazy hair


















Instructing the coach for kickoff : )

Hot lava!

Running down the hall pillow to pillow to avoid hot lava - I love boy games!

Labor Day Weekend

We had a great Labor Day weekend at the lake with the Middle and East Tennessee Johnstons. The boys had tons of fun playing with their cousins and the grownups had fun chasing them around! Emma and Alex are the same age and Hunter and Reed are too. Good times!

Four little monkeys sitting on a bed...

We're sad to go home...

Soccer in the rain

I have never seen Alex as excited about playing a sport as he was to play soccer on Saturday. Not because he's a second grader now and one of the biggest kids on the team or because he just finished watching a soccer game on tv...no, it was because he got to play in the rain!

Alex played mid-fielder and goalie and played three quarters of the game. They lost in the end, but they had a blast in the rain and the mud!

Reed's birthday party

Reed had his 5th birthday party last week with lots of friends from kindergarten. He wanted a cardinals theme, so we did baseball cupcakes, cardinals plates and plastic batting helmet ice cream bowls. They did a little playing on the playground and ate a yummy dinner. And even though Reed ducked under the table during happy birthday, I think he had a good time!

 

First day of school

Alex and Reed both had their first day of school today - 2nd grade and kindergarten. They were both really excited and so cute in their uniforms. Everybody did great and had a fun day. We are looking forward to a great year!

Honestly, this is what most of the pictures look like : )

Dropping Alex off in Ms. Burke's 2nd grade class

The big 2nd grader!

Reed in Ms. Beth's kindergarten class

Beach time!

We enjoyed the last week of summer at the beach. Once again, we shared a house with the Coles and the boys loved every minute! The Shelbys also joined us this year, and it was nice to have a little girl in the house, too. We had more rain than we planned on, but we managed to have fun in spite of the weather. We played in the water and the sand, ate lots of yummy food, took a tour of 30A and rode some rides in Pier Park. Another fun time at the beach!

Sugar overload in Rosemary Beach.

Eating at the food trucks in Seaside. So fun!

All five monkeys...

Reed was NOT a fan of the tilt-a-whirl!